Music clock
September 5th, 2008Music clock
The correct EST (Eastern Standard Time) has been preset at the factory, so just plug the clock in and adjust the time zone as necessary. In the case of a power interruption, the built-in Lithium battery maintains the correct time so you don't have to re-set the clock. When Daylight Savings Time changes take place in the spring and fall each year, there is no need to adjust the clock because the built-in calendar recognizes the dates and automatically makes the proper time adjustments. Dual Alarms with Alarm Indicator permits two separate wake-up times with individual wake-up settings and confirms that the alarm has been activated to turn on at the pre-set time. Choose your own snooze time instead of being held captive by the short time intervals of other snooze times. Each press of the snooze button adds an additional 10 minutes to your total snooze time for up to a full hour of uninterrupted sleep. Dual Alarms with Alarm Indicators Extendable Snooze AM/FM Analog Tuner Built-in Calendar Frequency Range - AM 530-1710 kHz, FM 87.5-108 MHz Power Requirements - AC 120V, 60Hz Output Power - 120mW at 10% harmonic distortion Battery Life (Approx) - Up to 250 Days (with Sony battery) Speaker Dimensions - 2 5/8-inch (66mm) Dimensions - Width 6 1/8 x Height 3 5/16 x Depth 5 15/16 inch (155 x 82.8 x 151.5mm) Weight - 1 pounds 2 ounces (524 grams)Electronics: No Power, No Problem Alarm System, Automatic Daylight Savings Time, Alarm Volume(High/Low), Programmable Sleep Timer
Company: Sony
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Automatically Sets to US Atomic Clock / Projects onto wall, ceiling / Indoor Thermometer / LCD Screen / Alarm with Snooze Function Icon display of U.S. map with designated time zones AC adapter included for continuous projection Calendar Mode Uses 2 AA batteries for backup power (included) Oregon Scientific 90-day limited warrantyLawn & Patio: Fixed-projection alarm clock; beams time onto ceiling, either momentarily or continuously, Automatically sets and updates time/day/date with U.S. Atomic Clock, Clock updates to any North American time zone, shows chosen zone, Crescendo alarm with 8-minute snooze function awakens soundest sleeper, High-tech, blue plastic housing; 5-1/4 inches high, 4-1/2 inches wide, 2-1/2 inches thick
Company: Oregon Scientific
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AM/FM Stereo Tuner / 1.4 Inch Large Easy-To-Read LED Display / Line In For MP3 Players (Cable Included) / 3-Way Dual-Alarm Set / Snooze Extendable Snooze gives you the freedom to choose your personal snooze time. Each press of the snooze bar adds an additional 10 minutes to your snooze time, up to a full hour CD-R/RW Playback - Plays CD-R/RW discs burned either in a PC or a home recording deck. Display - Green LED, 1.4 inch with Brightness Control Frequency Range - AM - 530-1710kHz; FM - 87.5-108MHz Dimensions - 7-1/2 x 3-2/3 x 8-3/4 inches (190 x 93 x 222mm) Weight 3 lbs 5 ozElectronics: CD player with CD-R/RW MP3 playback and digital AM/FM tuner, Audio line-in for MP3 players with included cable, Large easy-to-read 1.4" green LED, Dual alarm with extendable snooze, Easy-to-use large buttons
Company: Sony
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A soothing video storybook that won't get kids too wound up, The Clocks Symphony combines bold animation with two whimsical Haydn compositions for a light lesson in telling time. But this lesson has more to do with recognizing segments of the day (sunrise, waking up, going to school, and so on) than reading a clock. Simplistic characters including animals, chunky clock-faced children, and the show's host (a rainbow-haired conductor named Mini Maestro) glide atop vibrant backdrops as they enjoy each hour of their day. Ten scene changes divide the action; here a voice asks, "What time is it?" and counts while a clock ticks to the hour about to be featured. It's a tale without words (think Peter and the Wolf), designed to encourage color, number, and shape recognition in the 1-year-olds and develop storytelling skills in the 5-year-olds. What there is of actual story--18 short minutes--certainly attracts young eyes and ears; unfortunately, the remaining fluff, involving an intro song and a curtain call, do just the opposite. An accompanying book and CD set, sold separately, enhance the learning experience. --Liane Thomas VHS Tape: Animated, Color, NTSC
Company: Little Fiddle Company (2000-09-01)
ISBN: 0970048912
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Ross McElwee's films are to documentary what the personal memoir is to biography: McElwee presents his view of the world, coming as close to first-person narrative as is possible in a film. These are not documentaries you watch for an objective view of the world; in fact, what makes McElwee's films so remarkable is his unabashed bias, his outspoken commentary, and the voyeuristic glimpses into his personal life. Six O'Clock News, McElwee's third feature-length film, continues the autobiographical journey begun with Sherman's March and Time Indefinite. Here, though, rather than outside events launching personal exploration (as in March), the existence of his 8-month-old son initiates his investigation of the six o'clock news. Questioning the wisdom of bringing a child into a world full of violence and mayhem, he travels across the country, chasing the disasters he sees nightly on TV: the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo (where we revisit one of his favorite subjects, the lively and always entertaining Charleen); a widower whose wife was murdered in a wig shop; a man who had been trapped in a parking garage during the Los Angeles earthquake. Along the way, glimpses of McElwee's own life squeak in: a possible film deal with Miramax, metaphysical musings, and his son's views on God. This film is more polished than earlier ones (the editing is much tighter), effectively conveying themes ranging from the question of what is reality in the media to the randomness of disaster to fate and higher powers. Yet despite the weighty subjects, Six O'Clock News is not a heavy film; indeed, parts are extremely humorous, including a scene with a colorful next-door neighbor who records thousands of hours worth of TV shows, making this a well-rounded film that's both provocative and enjoyable. --Jenny Brown
VHS Tape:
Color, NTSC
Company: First Run Features
(1999-10-12)
ISBN: 6304934386
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Kinetic Engineering is a collective of visual ideograms developed by Clock DVA personel R.E.Baker and A.Newton during work on the albums Buried Dreams and Man-Amplified.VHS Tape: VHS, HiFi Sound, Import2 videos from the album Buried Dreams, 7 videos from the album Man-Amplified, 1 video from the album Sign
Company: Contempo International (1993)
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Rock 'n roll movies have rarely been more true to the spirit of the music than these two from the mid-'50s. That's not to say that Don't Knock the Rock and Rock Around the Clock, both of which were directed (in black & white) by Fred Sears and released in 1956, are anyone's idea of classic cinema. On the contrary, this is assembly-line stuff: the stories are flimsy and predictable; the dialogue is often risible, and much of the acting is on a high school drama club level. But these movies are all about the music (featuring multiple performances by Bill Haley and the Comets, Little Richard, the Treniers, the Platters, and others), with a lesser but still heavy emphasis on dancing, and on those levels they are an unexpected but unqualified delight. In Rock Around the Clock, agent Steve Hollis (Johnny Johnston) and his bass playing pal Corny (Henry Slate) quit their big band gigs and hit the road, where they happen upon Haley and his band in a Podunk farming town. Although they don't quite know what to make of the Comets' music ("It isn't boogie, it isn't jive, it isn't swing
it's kinda all of 'em!"), they know a hot prospect when they find one and promise to secure them a legitimate shot at the big time (with the help of Alan Freed, the pioneering Ohio disc jockey, who plays himself, albeit in a different capacity). Complications ensue, including romantic ones, but, well, who really cares? Haley and his band are on fire; they're lip-syncing, but the recordings of "See You Later Alligator," the title tune (which had made its debut a year earlier in Blackboard Jungle), and others are filled with snap and crackle, the musicians are great (especially jazz-influenced guitarist Franny Beecher), the stage show is a riot, and the dancing siblings played by Lisa Gaye and Earl Barton are simply amazing. It's more of the same in Don't Knock the Rock, in which reluctant star Arnie Haines (Alan Dale, a crooner who's not entirely convincing as a rocker), weary of life on the road, packs it in and heads home to sleepy Mellondale, wherever that is. The kids love him, but the adults, led by the odious old mayor, ban his "outrageous, depraved" music; Arnie then sets out to show them that "rock 'n' roll is a safe and sane dance for all young people." Once again, the plot is about as subtle as a Slayer concert, but Haley, Little Richard, and especially the hip and hilarious vocal trio the Treniers more than make up for that, as do several dynamic, beautifully choreographed dance numbers. The two-disc set includes no bonus features. --Sam Graham
Director:
Fred F. Sears
DVD:
Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Company: Sony Pictures
(2007-01-23)
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THE ROSS McELWEE DVD COLLECTION Six Films Including Four Never Before Released on DVD! Plus One Hour of Exclusive Bonus Material!
TITLES INCLUDED:
CHARLEEN, 59 minutes, 1978
One month in the life of Charleen Swansea, North Carolina poet, mother, beloved teacher, eccentric, romantic, and complex star of McElwee's Sherman's March.
BACKYARD, 40 minutes, 1984
The result of McElwee turning his camera on his family and their neighbors, the film is a humorous and poignant look at odd moments in a genteel Southern town.
SHERMAN'S MARCH, 155 minutes, 1986
Chosen by the Library of Congress as a "historically significant American motion picture," Sherman's March, one of the first high grossing documentaries ever, is "an autobiographic quest for true romance: filmmaker Ross McElwee, camera in hand and eros on his mind after an old girlfriend deserts him, trains his lens with phallic resolve on every accessible women he meets along the original route of General Sherman's Civil War March." (Pat Graham, Chicago Reader's Circle)
TIME INDEFINITE, 117 minutes, 1993
McElwee, Charleen Swansea, and several other memorable characters you met in Sherman's March invite you to pick up their story in Time Indefinite, McElwee's hilariously profound sequel to his much-beloved, critically acclaimed hit. When McElwee announces at the family gathering in South Carolina that he's going to marry a nice Jewish girl from Boston, the results are memorable. A series of unexpected bumps along life's road add a poignant, wistful quality to McElwee's chronicle.
SIX O'CLOCK NEWS, 103 minutes, 1997
McElwee pursues murder, mayhem and catastrophe the same way he pursued southern women in Sherman's March. Made after McElwee becomes a father and finds himself at home watching a lot more TV, he becomes obsessed with the nightly tales of calamity reported on by the local news. This fascination soon turns into another cross country journey to unearth the full stories of those affected. As McElwee pursues this project he also finds himself in Hollywood preparing to direct a feature based on a fictional character much like himself.
BRIGHT LEAVES, 105 minutes, 2004
McElwee family legend has it that the Hollywood melodrama Bright Leaf starring Gary Cooper as a 19th century tobacco grower, is based on McElwee's great-grandfather who created the famous "Bull Durham" brand. Using this legacy as a jumping off point, McElwee reaches back to his roots in this wry, witty rumination on American History, the tobacco business, and the myth of cinema.
Director: Ross Mcelwee
DVD: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Company: FIRST RUN FEATURES (2005-11-22)
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120 minutes of groundbreaking alternative music videos from some of the most influential bands of the scene such as the Flaming Lips, Mudhoney, Bad Brains, Afghan Whigs, Foetus Inc., Soul Asylum, American Music Club, Babes in Toyland, Dinosaur Jr. and more. 28 videos, 2 volumes, 2 hours of solid alt-rock on one DVD.DVD: Color, Compilation, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Company: Mvd Visual (2004-04-13)
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ZADRO Z200 -- When you're in the shower, your skin is warm and wet -- perfect conditions for shaving, but the mist and fog has always cancelled out the advantages. That is, until now. With its patented anti-fog coating, the Fog-Less Shower Mirror presents a clear reflection of your face, for accurate, safe shaving! Mirror dimensions - 6-1/4H x 5-1/4W Unit Dimensions (WHD) - 8-1/2x 8 x 1.25 Includes hanger cord and hanging clip; Trial size Mirror Cleaning Solution May also be hung with double-face tape or suction cups (optional)Kitchen: Dual LED lighting further enhances visibility, Light automatically turns off after five minutes, LCD clock helps keep you on your schedule, Razor holder and multiple easy wall attachment options, Also great for women applying facial treatments, or removing make-up in the shower
Company: Zadro Products
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